It’s #CapybaraAppreciationDay!
Frans Post (Dutch, 1612–1680)
View of the Rio São Francisco Brazil with Fort Maurits and a #Capybara, 1639
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre collection:
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062029
closeup via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rio_San_Francisco_and_Fort_Maurice,_Brazil_(Louvre,_INV_1727)_-_Capybara.jpg

#DutchBrazil #ColonialArt